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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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Example is better than following it.
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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg pate.
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A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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History is everything that has ever happened.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .
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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
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A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . .
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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
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Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
Stephen Ambrose
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